Re: OSX EightyRes ?
Re: OSX EightyRes ?
- Subject: Re: OSX EightyRes ?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:23:40 -0400
On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 05:37 PM, David Austin wrote:
I'm looking for a OSX application that adds functionality similar to
EightyRes.
EightyRes allows you to create "aete" resources to make your apps that
are AE enabled, applescriptable. ResEdit also did this with OS9.
Resourcerer creates "aete" resources but it is $250. I need a less
expensive option.
Anyone have any ideas where I can find an app that does this?
I'm assuming that this is for an application you're writing, in which
case you should really be asking this on applescript-implementors, but
whatever. (Slapping an 'aete' resource into an existing application
won't do much for it.)
EightyRes should still work, except that it will probably stick the
resource in the wrong place for a bundled application. Moving it is a
fairly trivial exercise with Rez and DeRez, which are included in the
developer tools.
There are some other possibilities, all of which involve the developer
tools:
1. Write the 'aete' resource in Rez. This is moderately complicated.
2. Write an sdef file and compile it into an 'aete' using sdp and Rez.
man sdef and man sdp for more details. There are currently some
limitations on what sdef/sdp can generate compared to a hand-built
'aete'; these are (mostly) being addressed.
3. Write your application in Cocoa and use Cocoa Scripting, which is a
lot easier than writing scriptability in Carbon. On the other hand,
there are currently some fairly serious limitations on what Cocoa
Scripting can do. For example, your error messages are guaranteed to
suck. These problems are being addressed.
--Chris Nebel
Apple Development Tools
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